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Rosa's Sports Photo Competition Entry

Ice hockey is played on an ice rink with a goal net at each end. Two teams on skates compete to score goals by using a stick, curved at one end,     1    (hit) a small, hard rubber disc, called a puck. There may be 20 players in each team, but only six can be on the rink at any time. One of them is the goalkeeper, who     2    (allow) to catch the puck or block it with any part of their body, as well as with their sick. Ice hockey has always been most popular in places     3     cold winters, for example in Canada, northern European, countries and the northern states of the USA. However, with indoor ice rinks, many other countries have started competing in this sport and ice hockey events held all year around.

In this photo,     4    (take) during a match between Hungary and Holland, you can see two players who are trying to control the puck. Their bodies are bumping together and the Dutch player is finding it hard to keep his balance on one leg, but they are both concentrating on reaching the puck with their sticks. I chose this action photo because it shows     5     exciting and competitive the game is. The light shining on the ice gives you an idea of the hard surface,     6     makes ice hockey the fastest team sport in the world. The puck can travel up to 160 kph and players may shake at about 40 kph. They must be ready to race forward, stop or turn quickly and changes suddenly from attacking to defending.

Also,     7     the photo shows, ice hockey is a very physical contact sport. Injuries are common, especially     8     players crash into each other. In the photo you can see the helmets that protect their heads and the thick pads that are worn on their legs, knees and shoulders. The game is so challenging that players can usually only stay on the ice for about two minutes before     9     (replace). It is their amazing physical skill and speed     10     make ice hockey so exciting to watch.

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The days of elderly women cooking huge meals on holidays and knitting themselves slowly into senior life       1     (be) gone. Enter the Red Hat Society -- a group dedicated to the new concept that old ladies should have fun.

“My grandmothers did     2     but keep house and serve everybody. They were programmed to do that,” said Emily Cornette, founder of a chapter of the 7-year-old Red Hat Society. The group has chapters in all 50 U.S. states and 25 countries.

While men have long spent their retirement fishing, women always seem to become invisible as they     3    (age). But the generation now turning 50 is the baby boomers, and the same people who rejected their parents’ way of being young are now making a new way of growing old.

With a bit of disposable income and     4    (good) health compared with the past generation for most elderly into the mix, the Red Hat Society starts to look almost inevitable.

“This is something just for me,” Cornette said. She kept an eagle eye out for guests with empty cups or plates that needed     5    (refill). "There aren’t any rules, really. We are doing     6    can’t be imagined by old-time women. We are just looking for fun.”

According to its founder Cooper, she     7    (inspire) when she saw a poem by Jenny Joseph that begins: “When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple with a red hat which doesn’t go.”

Cooper gave her friend a copy of the poem, along with a red hat,       8     served as the symbol of the organization.   Soon other women wanted red hats, and they     9    (attract) thousands of participants since then.

“The point of this is that we women could have fun for ourselves instead of doing things just for others,”Cooper said in a telephone interview. “We are forming a little society where we     10     feel relaxed and delighted along with our peers.”

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Anvitha Vijay is the Apple’s youngest app developer. When you were 9 years old, what were you busy     1       (do)? There were a whole lot of things you did but coding was definitely not one of them. However, this small girl     2    is aged 9 is the star of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). She developed an iPad/iPhone app about animals in Melboume, Australia and       3    (apply) for one of the popular scholarships to attend Apple’s annual developer conference.

    4    the youngest developer to attend Apple’s WWDC, Vijay is among one of 350 mostly high school and college students invited by Apple to attend the conference for free. Vijay     did not join any classes but learned coding all by     5    by following online guides and YouTube tutorials.

She showed interest in apps and coding after her younger sister       6    ( bear) .     7    she would see the little one learning new words daily, she decided to come up with apps for children. She’s developed multiple apps, the most popular of     8    is just Smartkins Animals.

Vijay works in the WWDC room like other people by walking up to developers at WWDC and handing out her business card, which has her name and a motto: “I want to make a difference in people’s lives through technology”. Back home, she used her mom’s iPhone ( under her mom’s name) because you have to wait     9    you are 13 to get an iTunes account.

Asked to name her favorite app beside the ones she developed, she cites the White Tiles 4 app, which was developed in China in 2014. What does she want to be when she grows up? “ I want to be an innovator,     10    (build) things that people will love and benefit from,” she said.

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A 14-year-old Girl Built an App to Help Alzheimer’s patients (老年痴呆症患者）

For many teenagers, their lives typically might circle around schoolwork and spending time with friends. Not so for Emma Yang. Though the Hong Kong-born girl is only 14, she     1    (create) her own mobile app for Alzheimer’s patients already.

The Timeless app, which Yang spent two years     2    (develop), comes with several important features. It is an artificial intelligence-powered facial recognition system in the app     3    helps Alzheimer’s patients identify people in photos and remember who they are. It also allows photos     4    (group) by individuals as well as provides a picture-based phone book, which enables a user to tap on photos to call or text a person.

The inspiration to develop an app that would help Alzheimer’s patients connect with their loved ones came to Yang at the age of 12, when her grandmother started forgetting things like     5    she lived and Yang's birthday.

“I wanted to create something to help people like my grandmother stay     6    (connect) with her family,” Yang said. It was a task she was well-prepared to undertake,     7    venture capitalists didn’t take her work seriously. Yang started a crowd finding campaign in March last year to support her 37/we/es^ app project. That effort raised more than $10,000.

At present Yang works with an international team that includes a designer in California and a developer in Cologne, Germany. The chief technology officer of Kairos, the AI company     8     technology is used in the Timeless app, is now Yang’s adviser.

Yang urged other young, ambitious people to believe in     9    because the teenagers of today will be tomorrow’s leaders. “Technology has been able to make kids put their ideas into action，’’ she said “    10     yon get out there and put yourself out there, tell people about your idea and find out who’s on board and can get behind it，you’ll eventually find that team of people.”

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Be Careful on the Internet

Parents of boys at a Sydney private school have been urged to monitor their sons' use of social networking website,with a warning     1     any mistakes made in teenage years could be permanently recorded on the Internet and catch up with them later in life.

The headmaster,Timothy Wright,wrote to parents on Thursday,     2     (explain)that younger boys were too immature to fully understand the possible consequences of disclosing private information on social networking sites."We now know that those parts of the brain     3     deal with decision-making are still developing in a man in his 20s.'he said. ‘But mistakes     4     (commit)at fifteen may be still accessible to an employer ten years later.

Modern technology means that a careless word, an ill-willed comment or an inappropriate photograph, are on permanent record and freely available to     5     has access. Stupidities that     6     (forget) immediately before now last, spread and damage in ways unknown before this decade.

Dr Wright said that     7     words spoken in the playground could be more easily forgotten, those captured on the Internet or on mobile phone text messages could have far more lasting and more hurtful consequences.

He urged parents to set ground rules for use of mobile phones and the Internet and in particular to set boundaries on taking and sending images that     8     be used to bully(霸凌）others. “Parents who are paying for the Internet service have an unquestionable right    9     ( insist) they are a friend on social networking websites.I would certainly insist on this    10     at least the end of 16 if not later.'he wrote.

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Ocean exploration changed human history

One of humanity’s greatest achievements has been mastering routes across the world’s oceans. Communities separated by thousands of miles     1    (bring) into contact and religious ideas have spread across the waters, while artistic creativity has been motivated by the experience of seeing the products of different civilizations. Customs have been decisively altered by the movement of ships across the oceans. No one drank tea in medieval Europe, but     2     contact had been made with the tea-drinking Chinese, tea became popular with millions of people from Sweden to the United States.

We tend to hold the view     3     the opening of the oceans was the work of the great explorers, especially the 15th century pioneers who edged their way through uncharted waters to southern Africa, the Indian Ocean and the lands of the Indies. These were sailors     4     Christopher Columbus, who chanced upon unsuspected lands that blocked the expected sea route from Europe to China and Japan. But while these men     5     give the Age of Discovery its name, they didn’t start the exploration of the world’s oceans — and there were also scores of merchants who followed in     6     route, taking full advantage of new knowledge about the open ocean to develop trade links across the world,     7     laid the foundation for modern globalization. These were the people who really mastered the oceans and brought the continents into contact.

Since then, the oceans have only continued     8    (tie) the world together — most dramatically when new routes were literally carved out, with the building of the Sues Canal in the 19th century and the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914. The first goods to pass through the Panama Canal consisted of a cargo of     9    (tin) pineapples from Hawaii. The Pacific and the Atlantic were     10    (closely) tied together than ever before.

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Cosmic rays are mysterious, high-charged atomic particles traveling through space at the speed of light,     1     have puzzled scientists for years. But for Yang Jia, a member of the National Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China’s top political advisory body, the ability to see and study them     2     help generate interest in science and space among schoolchildren.

Cosmic rays, first     3     (discover) in 1912, have been an enigma for years, but their detectability means they can be studied by middle and high school students with a basic knowledge of physics.

Yang, also a professor and a member of the Jiusan Society, a democratic political party, proposed further     4     (promote) the study of cosmic rays on school campuses at this year’s Two Sessions.

"It’s a wonderful idea. I heard a presentation from a scientist Zhang Chuang, and I was quite excited. I think it is a wonderful way     5     (share) their knowledge with young people. At that time, I heard in Los Angeles, there were already 80 high schools having such extra curriculums, and in Italy, there were 50. But in China, there were just a few," said Yang.

An organization called Campus Cosmic Ray Observation Collaboration     6     (establish) in September 2020 to promote the idea. Zhang, head of the organization, said they plan to build more stations on school campuses across China.

"We’ve been working on building more observation stations on campuses. At the moment, we have three in Dongzhimen, and we plan to set up more. Now we are working with three schools to build such stations. We also try to put our existing data on the website so that students can carry out related studies with open access," said Zhang.

    7     cosmic ray observation belongs to the field of frontier physics, experts say introducing it to the campus helps popularize science among students.

Chinese scientist Shen Changquan, 79,     8     (guide) Dongzhimen High School workshop for seven years since his retirement. He said such activities can help increase young students’ interest in science.

"By exposing students to cutting-edge science, students can stand on the shoulders of giants and touch a wider world. It’s not about     9     being scientists. It’s just that a lot of advanced equipment today requires physics knowledge, and improving the physics level of all people is very important," said Shen.

Talking about the future of the proposal, Yang said she is looking forward to seeing more dialogue between top scientists and students in China. She said they are optimistic, and     10     the difficulties ahead, the drive for humans to fully understand the unknown can never be stopped.

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Surprising Facts About At-Home DNA Tests

If you send your DNA to two different companies to find out about your ancestry, you may end up with two different results. That's     1     there's no certification (鉴定) required for DNA-testing companies. They may get the basic idea correct —     2     you are a little less than half northern European, for example, but when they say you're 30 percent from here and 60 percent from there, it's a statistical guess based on their own database and method.

Your results will be     3     (precise) if you're not a native. The more people from your ancestral region in a company's database, the more accurate your results will be.

You can find out your risk of diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's from an at-home DNA test kit, but a laboratory     4     (authorize) to do medical testing will give you much more conclusive results.

The results of your genetic testing could affect your ability to get insurance.     5     federal law prohibits health insurers from denying coverage based on genetic test results, the law does not apply to life, disability, and long-term-care insurance.

Law-enforcement agencies are increasingly using family tree DNA databases to solve crimes, as was done in the arrest of a former police officer accused of being the Golden State Killer. California detectives took the DNA results from various crime scenes,     6     (look) for partial matches on a public genealogy database, and eventually found their man.

The market is also exploding with companies     7     (claim) they can pinpoint the right product -- for your skin or your waistline, for instance - based on a DNA test. But consider them entertainment     8     real science, Greely says. A study found that diets based on genetic tests didn't help people lose weight.

Still, DNA tests can answer questions you've had about yourself - and     9     you didn't know to ask. For example, for     10     additional cost, 23 and Me will include your results on more than 25 individual traits, including if you are likely to be a morning person, whether your hatred of cilantro is genetic, and if your earwax is more likely to be dry or wet.

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Albert Einstein completely changed scientific thought. After he     1     (develop) the Theory of Relativity, Einstein opened the door for the creation of the atomic bomb. Although Einstein was not famous in his lifetime, he later became     2     (famous) scientist of the 20th century.

Although Einstein     3     (consider) the best example of genius, in the first two decades of his life, many people thought Einstein was the exact opposite. When Einstein didn’t talk until was three years old, his parents worried something was wrong with him. Einstein also failed     4     (impress) his teachers. From elementary school through college, his teachers and professors thought him lazy, sloppy, and insubordinate (不屈服的). Many of his teachers thought he would never amount to anything.

    5     appeared to be laziness in class was really boredom. Rather than just memorizing facts and dates, Einstein preferred to consider questions such as what makes the needle of a compass point in one direction? Why is the sky blue? What would it be like to travel at the speed of light?

Unfortunately for Einstein, these were not the types of topics he was taught in school.     6     his excellent grades, Einstein found regular schooling to be strict and unfair. Things changed for Einstein when he     7     (treat) Max Talmud friendly, the 21-year-old medical student     8     ate dinner at the Einstein’s once a week.     9     Einstein was only eleven years old, Max introduced Einstein to numerous science and philosophy books and then discussed their content with him. Einstein flourished in this learning environment and it wasn’t long     10     Einstein surpassed (超过) what Max could teach him.

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As more people across the world are encouraged to work from home, televised news, social media and online forums     1    (combine) can either be an enlightening or fear-mongering source of information.

    2     social distancing now a thing, one can only look at their phone or laptop so many times a day for accurate updates about the spread of COVID-19. Fortunately, a few tech enthusiasts are looking to make a contribution     3    (eradicate) the spread of the virus, using an app backed by data from official health organizations and medical institutes.

Rtr Nipuna Rambukkanage, President of The Rotary District 3220, noted that he and his team pondered over the situation of the nation and came up with     4     they recognized as the ‘deal solution’ —   a mobile application system called ‘Track the Spread’.

The system can be used to support the Government to control COVID-19 by storing and analyzing details of the quarantined persons, and the public health officials (PHI). PHIs can use their app to check the location of the quarantined persons and monitor their activities. Health officials will get the opportunity     5     the ability to monitor quarantined people without physically visiting them, give instructions and keep in touch with them.

The main challenge Rambukkanage and his team     6    (face) in building ‘Track the Spread’ was in finding talented undergraduates     7     reading degrees are related to Computer Science. They also needed to get the green light from the Government to put this app into practice. After visiting the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Defence, Medical Officers for Health and Public Health Inspectors. they finally triumphed on their well-deserved victory.

“We wanted to make the lives of people in quarantine easier,     8    (provide) them various benefits because people in quarantine have many needs and they need constant care. Therefore, we wanted to present them a mobile application to fulfill their day-to-day needs such as banking, ordering medicine and checking their health status daily. And the second objective was to reduce the risk of Public Health Inspectors     9     monitoring quarantined people. To increase the effectiveness of their service, we wanted to provide them with a mobile application to effectively do their investigations.

The team     10    (apply) for copyrights for the software system and are hoping to receive the copyrights soon.